Reinhold Persius
Reinhold Persius (born August 27, 1835 in Potsdam , † December 12, 1912 in Berlin ; full name: Ernst Ludwig Reinhold Persius ) was a German architect and Prussian construction clerk .
Life
Reinhold Persius was born as the fourth of six children to his father Ludwig Persius and the mother Charlotte Tusnelde Pauline from the gardener family Sello . Like his father, whom Friedrich Wilhelm IV appointed the king's architect , he embarked on the career of architect. As a student of Ferdinand von Arnim , Reinhold studied at the Berlin Building Academy from 1854 to 1856 , where he graduated as a site manager. At the same time he attended the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts with Johann Heinrich Strack and Karl Bötticher . From 1856 to 1860 he worked as a site manager for Friedrich August Stüler and the Potsdam master mason Johann Wilhelm Lüdicke . The first prize in the architecture competition of the art academy in 1859 enabled him to travel to southern France and Italy. By studying for a second time at the Bauakademie from 1860 to 1864, he obtained the title of master builder and then took part in the reconstruction of Hohenzollern Castle until 1867 . He used the winter months to travel to Austria, Italy, Belgium, France and Great Britain.
After being appointed court architect in Potsdam on January 1, 1867, he was given a teaching position at the Berlin Building Academy until 1875, and from 1876 to 1888 he was Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse's successor as head of the palace construction commission . During his membership at the Technical Higher Examination Office in Berlin, from 1878 to 1896, Reinhold Persius was appointed Oberhofbaurat in 1881, in 1886 as curator of art monuments in Prussia and as a secret councilor with the title of court architect for His Majesty the Emperor . From 1882 he was a member of the Reichstag building commission on the new building of the Berlin Reichstag building . Since 1890 he has been a secret councilor, and in 1901 he resigned from his offices for health reasons.
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Reinhold Ludwig Persius died on December 12, 1912 in Berlin. Like his father, he was buried in Potsdam-Bornstedt in the family cemetery of the Hofgärtner Hermann Sello family foundation , part of the Bornstedt cemetery .
Work (selection)
- 1864/1865: Village church in Bruges , Meyenburg (Prignitz, Brandenburg) location
- 1865/1866: District Office, Kyritz
- 1871–1872: Construction management for the reconstruction of the Berlin court arbor in Babelsberg Park , Potsdam
- 1872/1873: Villa Fischbach , Puschkinallee 5, Potsdam (private building)
- 1872/1873: Villa Mühlberg , Puschkinallee 4, Potsdam (private building)
- 1873/1874: Villa Francke, Gregor-Mendel-Str. 23, Potsdam (private construction)
- 1874–1876: Villa Bier, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 37, Potsdam (private building)
- 1877/1878: first structural expansion of the Villa Liegnitz in Sanssouci Park, Potsdam
- 1879: Küsterhaus at the Friedenskirche in Sanssouci Park , Potsdam
- 1880–1883: Expansion of the Berlin Stock Exchange on Burgstrasse based on a design by Friedrich Hitzig , Berlin
- 1881–1890: as successor to Hitzig, construction management of the Hall of Fame in the Berlin armory
- 1880–1881: Chapel in Klein Glienicke , Potsdam
- 1881–1882: The Bornstedter Church is extended to the east
- 1882: Co-design of the tomb Johann Heinrich Strack, Berlin
- 1883: Extension to the Behr-Negendank Palace at Wilhelmplatz 7, Berlin
- 1883–1885: Reconstruction and expansion of the Prince Leopold Palace at Wilhelmplatz 9, Berlin
- 1888–1889: Remodeling of the theater on Gendarmenmarkt , Berlin
literature
- O. Hoßfeld : Reinhold Persius †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . 33rd year 1913, No. 5 (from January 18, 1913), pp. 34–37 ( digitized version of the Central and State Library Berlin ).
- Ulrike Bröcker: The Potsdam suburbs 1861-1900. From the tower villa to the apartment building. 2nd edition, Werdersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2005, ISBN 3-88462-208-0 , p. 292.
Web links
- Literature by and about Reinhold Persius in the catalog of the German National Library
- Drawings by Reinhold Persius in the Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin
- Reinhold Persius' first work: The Bruges Village Church and Förderverein Persiuskirche Bruges eV
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| SURNAME | Persius, Reinhold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Persius, Ernst Ludwig Reinhold (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and Prussian building officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1912 |
| Place of death | Berlin |